Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds